I remembered the first time the search occurred to me. I came to myself under a chindolea bush.
~ Binx Bolling (The Moviegoer by Walker Percy)

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Benedict on Lent

A beautiful segment from one of Benedict's pre-Lenten meditations to a deacon:

On this occasion, I bring to mind -- though it is perhaps not immediately inherent to the theme -- a simple experience that Paul VI noted. Each day of the Council, the Gospel was enthroned. And the Pontiff told those in charge of the ceremony that he would like one time to be the one who enthrones the Gospel. They told him no, this is the job of the deacons, not of the Pope. He wrote in his diary: But I am also a deacon, I continue being a deacon, and I would like to also exercise this ministry of the diaconate placing the word of God on its throne. Thus, this concerns all of us. Priests continue being deacons, and the deacons make explicit in the Church and in the world this diaconal dimension of our ministry. This liturgical enthroning of the word of God each day during the Council was always for us a gesture of great importance: It told us who was the true Lord of that assembly; it told us that the word of God was on the throne and that we exercise our ministry to listen and to interpret, to offer to the others this word. It is broadly significant for all that we do: enthroning in the world the word of God, the living word, Christ. May it really be him who governs our personal life and our life in the parishes....

Markel, SJ

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Better or Better Off by Peter Maurin

The world would be better off,If people tried to become better.And people would become better,If they stopped trying to be better off.For when everybody tries to become better off,Nobody is better off.But when everybody tries to become better,Everybody is better off.Everybody would be rich,If nobody tried to be richer.And nobody would be poor,If everybody tried to be the poorest.And everybody would be what he ought to be,If everybody tried to beWhat he wants the other fellow to be.